Staff Kiosk Toolbar
Student Search
Use the 'Student Search' to find a student and access the Student Profile page.
For more information, refer to: Student Search
Notifications
The 'Alerts' icon in the top right corner of the screen will display in red when you have one or more current Notifications. Hover over this icon to display your current notifications.
To acknowledge that you have read a notification, click the 'Acknowledge' box. The notification will no longer be visible.
The programs that can initiate notifications in Staff Kiosk include:
Pastoral Care > PC Entries
Staff > Meetings/Communications
Events > Approving an Event and Payments
Staff > Notifications
Video Library
Use the 'Video Library' icon to access the TASS Video Library. An extensive range of short instructional movies are available for you to watch covering various aspects of Staff Kiosk.
Accessing TrackOne
Use the 'TrackOne' icon to access TrackOne Analytics. This icon is only visible to schools with a TrackOne licence.
Accessing webBook
Click the 'webBook' icon to access webBook.
User Help
The ‘question mark’ icon is used to access Staff Kiosk Online Help.
Login Menu
Hover over your name to access the login menu options:
Login History
This provides a history with dates and times of your recent Staff Kiosk logins, including failed login attempts.
About
Displays the version of TASS that is running.
Change Password
Allows users to update their passwords.
Preferences
Homepage Year Group Preferences
Several Staff Kiosk homepage programs will filter the data that is returned based on the 'Year Level Preferences' that you enter here, e.g. If you teach in the Senior school, you could select years 11 and 12. Program Homepage > Today's Absentees will only display the absentee records for students in Years 11 and 12.
My Email Signature
If your school uses SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) for emails that are generated from Staff Kiosk, you need to enter your email signature here. The rich text editor can be used to format the appearance of your email signature (for example bold, italics and underlined).
This field accepts text and images.
Ghosting
If your school has enabled the 'Ghosting' feature in Staff Kiosk, it means that potentially you can 'Ghost' in and operate another staff member's Staff Kiosk, or another staff member can ghost in and operate your Staff Kiosk.
The level of functionality that is available to someone 'Ghosted' in as you is determined by your system administrator.
Staff Kiosk supports 'Ghosting', where Teacher A can 'Ghost' in as Teacher B. Access to 'Ghosting' for Staff Kiosk users is via the drop-down list next to their name in the toolbar.
There are two factors that determine 'Ghosting':
- Which Teachers 'Teacher A' Is Able to 'Ghost' Into
These are determined by the Staff Kiosk permissions setup in TASS.web program System Admin > Users > Portal Security Permissions. Use the 'Ghosting – Allow Access To' section.
The options are:- Teachers All—This means that a user with this permission will be able to 'Ghost' into all teachers at the school, e.g. The Principal.
- Teachers - HOD/DA—This means that a user with this permission will be able to 'Ghost' into all teachers who are in his/her department, e.g. Department Heads and Department Administrators.
- Teachers Buddy—This means that a user with this permission will be able to 'Ghost' into all teachers who are have granted him/her buddy access using Staff Kiosk program Staff > Teacher Details > My Buddies, e.g. Class teachers.
- Teachers My Campus—This means that a user with this permission will be able to 'Ghost' into all teachers who belong to his/her campus, e.g. Class teachers.
- Non-Teachers All—This means that a user with this permission will be able to 'Ghost' into all non-teaching Staff Kiosk users, e.g. The Principal.
- The Level of Functionality That Is Available Once the Teacher Is Ghosted In
The permissions controlling what Teacher A can access, once he/she is 'Ghosted' in as Teacher B, are also defined in the Staff Kiosk permissions set up in TASS.web program System Admin > Users > Portal Security Permissions. Use the 'Ghost Access via Homepage' and 'Ghost Access via Top Menu' columns.
Several permissions have been deliberately excluded from 'Ghosting' (e.g. Pay Envelopes and Payment Summaries).
A record will be made in the Audit Logs Grid whenever a user ghosts in as another user.
Important!
When Teacher A is ghosted in as Teacher B, an email or notification generated through Staff Kiosk will be from Teacher A.
Take care when allocating 'Ghosting Permissions', that you are aware of the ramifications of the level of 'Ghosting' that will be available to teachers/non-teachers. You should log in as a teacher/non-teacher and test the level of 'Ghosting' before making this generally available.
Logout
Click the ‘power switch’ symbol in the Preferences drop down menu or the Logout icon to log out of the program.
Hide Banner
Click the 'up-arrow' icon to hide the banner. This provides a larger working frame for your Staff Kiosk.